While we’ve known about this for quite some time at WUWT, going back to August 2013, the story is now starting to make the rounds in the MSM.
And, NASA has created a cool visualization of the event. Video follows. From the NASA video description:
This visualization shows the position of the sun’s magnetic fields from January 1997 to December 2013. The field lines swarm with activity: The magenta lines show where the sun’s overall field is negative and the green lines show where it is positive. A region with more electrons is negative, the region with less is labeled positive. Additional gray lines represent areas of local magnetic variation.
The entire sun’s magnetic polarity, flips approximately every 11 years — though sometimes it takes quite a bit longer — and defines what’s known as the solar cycle. The visualization shows how in 1997, the sun shows the positive polarity on the top, and the negative polarity on the bottom. Over the next 12 years, each set of lines is seen to creep toward the opposite pole eventually showing a complete flip. By the end of the movie, each set of lines are working their way back to show a positive polarity on the top to complete the full 22 year magnetic solar cycle.
At the height of each magnetic flip, the sun goes through periods of more solar activity, during which there are more sunspots, and more eruptive events such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. The point in time with the most sunspots is called solar maximum.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/PFSS
The WUWT solar reference page has this revealing plot from Dr. Leif Svalgaard:
Solar Polar Fields – Mt. Wilson and Wilcox Combined -1966 to Present
Leif Svalgaard – Click the pic to view at source
Changes in Earth rotation rates
Changes LOD
Changes atmospheric circulation patterns N., S., Equator.
And what we might see occurring in current weather patterns in the Eastern Hemisphere part of the phase shift from the above changes.
lsvalgaard says:
January 4, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Carla says:
January 4, 2014 at 1:33 pm
Just tripped on this looking for something else..
As the authors say: “This [the variation] argues against an origin from solar processes”.
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Maybe so.. but the article does not mention the heliocurrent sheet specifically either.
Carla says:
January 4, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Maybe so.. but the article does not mention the heliocurrent sheet specifically either.
Why should it? The HCS has nothing to do with the LOD either.
Humor me and have a look..
Just a little visual comparison looking for an inverse correlation between LOD and heliocurrent sheet angle.
http://wso.stanford.edu/gifs/Tilts.gif
Page 21 Figure S3 1960-2011 LOD (ms)
Characterisation and implications of intradecadal variations
in length-of-day
R. Holme1 & O. de Viron2
http://www.liv.ac.uk/~holme/nature_sub.pdf
Carla says:
January 4, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Humor me and have a look..
I did. The LOD has nothing to do with the LOD. The authors are quite correct in their Characterisation.
lsvalgaard says:
January 4, 2014 at 2:33 pm
Carla says:
January 4, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Humor me and have a look..
I did. The HCS has nothing to do with the LOD. The authors are quite correct in their Characterisation.
Mario, thank you. Glad to know that all is well.
lsvalgaard says:
January 5, 2014 at 12:51 pm
Does anybody find this convincing:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/409/1/012239/pdf/1742-6596_409_1_012239.pdf
I do not.
I haven’t read it yet, I’ll let You know!
Leif,
Not convincing at all. The five month lag of each yearly period over two separate solar maximums seem to me to be seasonal or even lunar. It’s an interesting idea tho.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/409/1/012239/pdf/1742-6596_409_1_012239.pdf
Leif,
How about this one!! lol
Dogs preferred to excrete with the body being aligned along the North-south axis under calm MF conditions. This directional behavior was abolished under Unstable MF. The best predictor of the behavioral switch was the rate of change in declination, i.e., polar orientation of the MF.
http://www.frontiersinzoology.com//content/10/1/80/abstract
A nice interactive tool to see the Sun’s magnetic field structure:
http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/webgl_tool/solar_viewer/?date=20140106
Rotate the sun with the mouse!
lsvalgaard says:
January 6, 2014 at 6:47 am
A nice interactive tool to see the Sun’s magnetic field structure:
http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/webgl_tool/solar_viewer/?date=20140106
Rotate the sun with the mouse!
Very nice. I’ve wrote a similar program in opengl, except for the magnetic lines.
Tip: If it doesn’t work Enable webgl for Firefox.
http://www.infewbytes.com/?p=144
Thank you for taking your first steps. My time is short, so I will just repeat what I said elsewhere today from here http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/the-state-of-climate-science/#more-15249
“Keep up the good work Tallbloke!
The CO2 warmists are clearly insane. They’ve tried repeatedly to get us to “submit to their authority” without providing clear evidence, or cogent cause-effect relationships, or any sign of having a “theory” that has been reduced to a practical science that can produce verifiable predictions. They don’t follow the scientific method. They expect us to believe them in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They have been at that for more than two decades and still can’t produce anything of value.
What is the very definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. They’d be taken seriously if they could come up with verifiable results. They can’t, and they never will, because their “science” is faulty, based on the wrong premises. They are INSANE.
The rest of the freedom-loving humanity don’t have to listen to them or follow their dictates any more. The sun is showing them who’s boss right now, today:
From my post this morning at http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=616&c=5
“Electric space weather: “FLARES LIKELY TODAY: Giant sunspot AR1944 has a ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field that harbors energy for potent Earth-directed eruptions.” – http://www.spaceweather.com/ “A minor S1 level radiation storm remains in progress following an increase in Earth directed proton levels. Unfortunately for us sky watchers, the bright coronal mass ejection (CME) it generated is likely directed away from our planet.” SSN=225, SFI=218 – http://www.solarham.net/ [“FORTUNATELY” would have been a better choice of words considering…] Further, the largest and quickest spikes I have ever seen in ACE LE Electrons (a double spike) and ACE HE Protons – http://solarimg.org/artis/ – AR1944, when it rolls into position and if it fires off a flare towards us, look for atmospheric brightening, a delayed warm blast from the tropics, an another planetary wave induced SSW, and the polar vortex to deliver another wave of bone-chilling killer cold – all Electric/Magnetic Weather Effects.” ”
Dr. Svalgaard, your challenge is accepted. I am writing a science paper. You may not realize it now, but I’ve gone through all the stages of the scientific method starting with observations. So has Piers Corbyn. If I have to go to the Electric Universe people and straighten them out myself, I will.
ALL interested parties may look for yourself at Piers’ last three months forecasts at his archives page here for verification of the excellence he has finally achieved today after decades of following the scientific method: http://www.weatheraction.com/pages/pv.asp?p=wact46
Here’s a quiz for all the marbles: what is the significance of the number 282? Clue: it happened once.
Bob Weber says:
January 6, 2014 at 9:40 am
AR1944, when it rolls into position and if it fires off a flare towards us
I don’t think AR1944 will be flaring a lot…
It is in the wrong position with respect to the large-scale magnetic flux, e.g.http://www.leif.org/research/Hale-Flares.pdf
Leif,
Is it possible for the large outer planets to behave like polarity gates that can interfere with the solar dynamo?
Sparks says:
January 6, 2014 at 10:19 am
Is it possible for the large outer planets to behave like polarity gates that can interfere with the solar dynamo?
Apart from my having no idea what a ‘polarity gate’ is, I don’t think the planets have any effect.
http://www.leif.org/research/AGU%20Fall%202011%20SH34B-08.pdf
Some people do, but people believe all kinds of things, e.g. CO2 causing CAWG 🙂
Bob Weber says:
January 6, 2014 at 9:40 am
Dr. Svalgaard, your challenge is accepted. I am writing a science paper.
It was not a challenge, just a friendly reminder about the established way to gain credibility.
lsvalgaard says:
January 6, 2014 at 10:23 am
“Apart from my having no idea what a ‘polarity gate’ is, I don’t think the planets have any effect.”
What I mean by a ‘polarity gate’ is, where a magnetic moment occurs between two (or more) basic polarities, but on a planetary scale. a point of basic repulsion or attraction.
I have noticed one planet in particular that mimics the solar dynamo and during the times when the gate is interrupted, the solar dynamo and this planet both go out of sync for a period of time until they slowly and gradually become synchronized again.
It cant be angular momentum.
Sparks says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:07 am
What I mean by a ‘polarity gate’ is, where a magnetic moment occurs between two (or more) basic polarities, but on a planetary scale. a point of basic repulsion or attraction.
Because the solar wind supersonic, no magnetic or electric fields can travel upstream to influence the Sun.
lsvalgaard says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:14 am
“Because the solar wind supersonic, no magnetic or electric fields can travel upstream to influence the Sun.”
No magnetic or electric fields need to travel upstream to influence the Sun, as the gate itself is the source of influence between two (or more) basic polarities/bodies.
Sparks says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:25 am
No magnetic or electric fields need to travel upstream to influence the Sun, as the gate itself is the source of influence between two (or more) basic polarities/bodies.
Nonsense.
lsvalgaard says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:27 am
“Nonsense.”
I’ll put it to you another way.
A repulsive force (+) does not need to travel upstream to influence the source of another repulsive force (+).
Sparks says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:35 am
A repulsive force (+) does not need to travel upstream to influence the source of another repulsive force (+).
That would be true if there were a vacuum between the two sources, but the solar wind is an electrically conducting medium that does not allow penetration of magnetic or electric fields.
lsvalgaard says:
January 6, 2014 at 11:43 am
“That would be true if there were a vacuum between the two sources, but the solar wind is an electrically conducting medium that does not allow penetration of magnetic or electric fields.”
It allows for a ‘polarity gate’ on a planetary scale, as there is no penetration of magnetic or electric fields occurring between the two sources. A small repulsive force (+) can move a larger repulsive force (+) with or without a vacuum.
Sparks says:
January 6, 2014 at 12:01 pm
It allows for a ‘polarity gate’ on a planetary scale, as there is no penetration of magnetic or electric fields occurring between the two sources. A small repulsive force (+) can move a larger repulsive force (+) with or without a vacuum.
You are not learning anything. Willful ignorance is a bad thing. Two sources can interact if there is a field between them [gravitational field, magnetic field, what have you]. Any influence of one upon the other source is mediated by the field between them. Any change of conditions at one source has to travel as a wave in the field between them to the other source. For a magnetic field in a plasma the travel speed is called the Alfven speed. The solar wind is moving away from the Sun many times faster than the Alfven speed, so a magnetic influence cannot travel upstream.